Emil Hegetschweiler Movies

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how...

The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed....

If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that man was director Leopold Lindtberg. Matto Regiert...

Josef Rainer is a road worker in a mountain village in Liechtenstein. His wife Marianne works as a waitress in a restaurant to improve the meager...

The farmers of a village decide to postpone the construction of a new school in profit of a concentration to cheese production. From a novel by...

Der 10. Mai (The Tenth of May) was the date in 1940 that Hitler invaded the Low Countries: Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Neutral Switzerland,...

In Bern above Junkerngasse 54 the caretaker has died - the old Hutzli. On the day on which he was buried, it's started again, this howling in the...

The film traces Uli's progress from his humble peasant surroundings to the homes of the wealthy and prominent. The characterizations are convincing,...

Uli has been the tenant of the "Glunggen-farm" for two years. His wife Vreneli gave him two children and the couple is happy. But this year, the...

A hairdresser is being recruited during World War I by the Swiss military where they turn this soft civilian into a 'real man'.

Widowed baker Zürrer has to raise his three children, who all turn out to be disappointments to him in various ways.

Wäckerli, policeman in the small Swiss village of Allenwil, is in trouble. His son Ruedi is unhappy in his apprenticeship and spends way too...

A mountain film set around the popular ski pass in the 1930s.

Realist melodrama set in Zurich.

A "milieustudie" about a girl going to the famous Cafe Odeon and trying to make ends meet.